TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Angelucci, Manuela
AU  - Giorgi, Giacomo De
AU  - Rangel, Marcos A.
AU  - Rasul, Imran
        TI  - Village Economies and the Structure of Extended Family Networks
        PY  - 2009/Oct/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 4499
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp4499
        AB  - This paper documents how the structure of extended family networks in rural Mexico relates to the poverty and inequality of the village of residence. Using the Hispanic naming convention, we construct within-village extended family networks in 504 poor rural villages. Family networks are larger (both in the number of members and as a share of the village population) and out-migration is lower the poorer and the less unequal the village of residence. Our results are consistent with the extended family being a source of informal insurance to its members.
        KW  - village marginality
KW  - migration
KW  - extended family network
KW  - village inequality
        ER  -